Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13…

What was the tailor's advice, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: advice · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 173 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13: robbed, a poor wood-cutter, finds a princess underground» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 advice	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 tailor	case
6	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	1 What	case
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tailor's advice						tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

keep it on the down low, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 keep	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 down	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 down	det
5	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 keep	obl
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 keep	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 keep	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 keep	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it		the down		low property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on down=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

don't flash your money, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 flash	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 flash	advmod
3	flash	flash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 money	nmod:poss
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flash	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flash	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 flash	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not flash	imperative · do-support	you not said here	your money					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 3

just keep your head down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 keep	advmod
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep down	imperative	you not said here	your head				down property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 4

keep it quiet, yeah, and don't tell nobody who your dad is or where you're from

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 keep	obj
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 keep	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 keep	punct
5	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 keep	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 tell	advmod
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 keep	conj
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 where	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 where	nsubj
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dad	nmod:poss
14	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 where	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 where	cop
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 where	cc
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 tell	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 from	nsubj
19	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 from	cop
20	from	from	ADP	_	17 where	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it	quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert	infinitive · do-support	you not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	nobody		where property	tree rules

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